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Think Tanks are in constant danger of generating impotent, detached, intelligent conjecture with little policy relevance and I feel that Quilliam has the capacity for innovation and unique perspective to ensure it avoids that fate.
Student, Bradford
Thanks for this website. I've found it very helpful in gaining a basic understanding of the issues around extremism and realising that mainstream Muslims are as much a target of such extremism as non-Muslims.
About Us
Quilliam is the world’s first counter-extremism think tank. Located in London, our founders are former leading ideologues of UK-based extremist Islamist organizations – organizations that are still active today.
Extremism, a prelude to terrorism, cannot be contained by Muslims alone. Not least because religious rigidity and extremism are products of the failures of wider society to foster a shared sense of belonging and to advance liberal democratic values among all sections of society. That said, we believe a more self-critical approach must be adopted by Muslim leaders to free communities from Westophobic ideological influences, escape social insularity and facilitate the organic growth of Western Islam.
Quilliam seeks to challenge what we think, and the way we think. It aims to generate creative thought paradigms through informed and inclusive discussion to counter the Islamist ideology behind terrorism, whilst simultaneously providing evidence-based recommendations to governments for related policy measures.
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